Alex Marquez was born in North Bergen, New Jersey from a Cuban mother and El Salvadorian father. She grew up in the urban lifestyle of West New York. Her preschool faced the Hudson river where she looked upon the New York City skyline everyday. She learned to live a fast-paced life always on edge. Fast forward to ten years later, her parents decided they could not take the icy winters up North and so they moved down to the warm South. Alex attended middle school in Gwinnett County, Georgia where she learned the Southern lifestyle. Life was much slower where everyone took each day one at a time. Alex always had big dreams and worked hard throughout her high school years and ended up at the University of Georgia. She was the first in her family to go to a university and made her family proud. She watched her peers drop like flies and do things like work instead of pursue higher education. After graduation, she went to graduate school for her PhD in clinical psychology. She finally was able to work with children with disorders or who have gone through extreme trauma. Alex opened her private practice in North Atlanta where she can stay close to her parents and siblings. She gives her parents everything they could wish for.If they never chose to immigrant to this country, she wouldn’t be where she was in her life.